African Film and Literature
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African Film and Literature

Adapting Violence to the Screen

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eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

African Film and Literature

Adapting Violence to the Screen

About this book

Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, "updating" both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. ContentsĀ 
  7. Film Stills
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1: Cinema and Violence in South Africa
  13. 2: Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film
  14. 3: Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi
  15. 4: From Black and White to ā€œColouredā€: Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night
  16. 5: Audio-visualizing ā€œInvisibleā€ Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country
  17. 6: Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa
  18. 7: Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon
  19. 8: African Incar(me)nation: Joseph GaĆÆ Ramaka's Karmen GeĆÆ (2001) 218
  20. 9: Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La GenĆØse (1999)
  21. Conclusion
  22. Notes
  23. Filmography
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Film and Culture Series